Images of Mercedes (Daimler), Benz, and Mercedes-Benz cars in chronological order
© Original photos from the Michael Schlenger collection (unless stated otherwise)

Benz phaeton, built c. 1910, postcard from 1911

Mercedes from 1909/10; photo taken in Munich in 1911

Mercedes phaeton, wartime picture taken at the Morawa river (Serbia) in 1914/15

Mercedes 28/60 h.p. phaeton, built starting from 1912, wartime photo taken in 1915

Benz 8/20 h.p., built from 1912 until 1920, photo taken at Pentecost 1914

Benz landaulet c.1912

Benz 10/30 or 16/40 h.p. open-drive sedan, built c.1912

Benz 25/55 h.p. phaeton built starting in 1914, photo taken at Chateau Peltzer (nowadays Chateau La Tourelle) in Belgium

Benz 16/40 h.p. phaeton with beaked radiator, photo taken in WW1

6-cylinder Benz from the early 1920s, used by a high-ranking officer of the German police

Benz 6/18 h.p. “Sport”; built from 1918 until 1921; photo courtesy of Gottfried Müller

Benz 14/30 h.p. phaeton, built from 1914 until 1921

Benz 11/40 h.p. phaeton, built from 1923 until 1925, photo taken in the late 1920s

Benz sedan, built from 1914 until 1922, photo taken in 1926

Mercedes 28/95 h.p., built from 1914 until 1924

Benz 10/30 h.p. phaeton, built from 1921 until 1926 (this car c.1925)

Benz 10/30 h.p. phaeton, built from 1921 until 1926

Benz 10/30 sedan, built from 1921 until 1926

Benz 10/30 h.p. sedan, built from 1921 until 1926

Benz 11/40 h.p. sedan, built from 1923 until 1925

Mercedes 28/95 h.p., built from 1914 until 1924; photo taken in June 1922

Mercedes 10/40 h.p., built from 1921-24, picture taken in the mid-1920s

Mercedes 10/40 h.p., built from 1921 until 1924

Mercedes 15/70/100 PS, built from 1924-1929, car used by the German army (“Reichswehr”) in the 1920s

Mercedes-Benz “K” 24/110/160 h.p., built from 1926 until 1929; photo probably taken by order of the factory

Benz 16/50 h.p. , built from 1921 until 1926, photo taken in Saxony in July, 1928

Benz 16/50 h.p., built from 1921 until 1926, photo taken in Luxembourg in 1934

Mercedes-Benz 8/38 h.p., built from 1926 until 1929, photo taken near Überlingen (Lake Constance, Southern Germany)

Mercedes-Benz Type “Stuttgart” 200, built from 1929 until 1933

Mercedes-Benz 14/60 h.p. Type 350 “Mannheim”, built in 1929/30, photo taken in Friedberg (Hesse)

Mercedes-Benz 14/60 h.p. Type 350 “Mannheim”, built from 1929 until 1930

Mercedes-Benz Type 350 “Mannheim”, photo taken in 1934 near Münsingen (Southern Germany)

Mercedes-Benz 460 or 500 “Nürburg” (built from 1928 until 1935, this car before 1933)

Mercedes-Benz 460 or 500 “Nürburg” (built from 1928 until 1935, this car starting in 1933), photo taken at castle Saaleck (Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany)

Mercedes-Benz 170 (W15), Cabriolet C, built from 1931 until 1936

Mercedes-Benz 170 or 200, mid-1930s

Mercedes-Benz 200 of former race-driver Karl Kappler, picture taken in Northern Italy near the Toblino castle, 1933

Mercedes-Benz 200 Cabriolet C, built from 1933-34, prewar pictures taken in Northern Italy

Mercedes-Benz 200, 4-door sedan, built from 1933-36, picture taken in 1937 near Augustusburg (Saxony)

Mercedes-Benz 200, 4-door sedan, built from 1933-36; prewar photo taken in Northern Germany

Mercedes-Benz 200 “Cabriolimousine”, built from 1933 until 1936

Mercedes-Benz 200 “Geländesport”, photo taken during an offroad competition in the 1930s

Mercedes-Benz 200 “Geländesport”, wartime photo, probably taken in Poland or Russia

Mercedes-Benz 230 Cabriolet B, wartime photo taken in Berlin in 1939

Mercedes-Benz 230, 4-window convertible, built from 1937 until 1941, wartime photo

Mercedes 290, built from 1933-36, prewar picture showing a German private

Mercedes-Benz 320 convertible “A”, built from 1936-37, photo taken in 2016 at the “Classic Days” event on the premises of Schloss Dyck (Lower Rhine area)

Mercedes-Benz 320 Cabriolet B, built from 1937 until 1942, prewar photo

Mercedes-Benz 130 H, built from 1934 until 1936, original adertisement

Mercedes-Benz 130H, built from 1934 until 1936, prewar picture taken in Friedberg (Hesse)

Mercedes-Benz 130H, built from 1934 until 1936, picture taken on the Splügenpass road in 1938

Mercedes-Benz 170V, built from 1936 until 1942, picture taken in Budapest in 1939

Mercedes-Benz 170V, four-door sedan, built from 1936 until 1942

Mercedes-Benz 170V, four-door convertible-seda, built from 1936 until 1942, photo taken on the occasion of a motorcycle race in the 1950s in Eastern Germany